[issue12158] platform: add linux_version()

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> The returned value should be a version string in a fixed format,
> not a tuple. I'd suggest to use _norm_version() for this.

How do you compare version strings? I prefer tuples, as sys.version_info, because the comparaison is more natural:

>>> '2.6.9' > '2.6.20'
True
>>> (2, 6, 9) > (2, 6, 20)
False

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